Re: A bunch of oxymorons?
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 17, 2001, 20:40 |
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:48:31 +1200 andrew <hobbit@...> writes:
>> evidence has been found for. Is there something about Muslim
>> conlangers that makes such a description an oxymoron?
>> - andrew.
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>I don't see why that would be so... Arab-Islamic culture in the middle
>ages was famous for its grammarians, linguists, and poets; conlanging has
>got to be in there somewhere too.
>
Recall that the old book of strange alphabets I alerted the list
to a while back was written, originally, in Arabic. I haven't
looked at it recently, but I think some of the alphabets were
made by Muslim philosophers.
Padraic.
>-Stephen (Steg)